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AWR® is a leading supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) products for the design of wireless telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, high-speed computers, networking systems, automotive mobility systems, and a variety of other electronics-based products. AWR is a privately-held company and has global development offices, sales offices, training centers, and distribution channels. More than 700 companies have deployed its software worldwide, including virtually every major high-frequency electronic component and system supplier.

Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) is a complete software suite for today’s complex communication systems that enables engineers to design the right system architecture and formulate suitable specifications for each of the underlying components. VSS is built upon Unified Data Model™ architecture (as is Microwave Office®) and therefore provides for seamless system and circuit level co-simulation.

ACE™ circuit extraction technology that dramatically reduces from hours to seconds the time required to do the initial modeling of complex interconnects.Innovative ACE circuit extraction technology dramatically reduces from hours to seconds the time required to do the initial modeling of complex interconnects.

AWR acquired APLAC in 2005 and has since integrated this world class, foundry-approved harmonic balance / transient circuit simulation engine into its product portfolio. Today this technology is only available within AWR design suites.

AWR, the innovation leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), today announced AWR Connected™ for Rohde & Schwarz, which integrates the capabilities of R&S WinIQSIM2 simulation software from the leading test and measurement manufacturer within its Visual System Simulator (VSS) system analysis software. The complete range of digitally-modulated signals generated by R&S WinIQSIM2.

AWR Corp.'s iFilter technology was developed specifically for synthesis of lumped-element and distributed filters. iFilter's intuitive user interface enables users to quickly and easily design filters, connect them directly to circuitry, and make optimization trade-offs that positively impact their designs.

NI (formerly AWR Corp.) has published a new success story detailing how a University of Alberta, Canada graduate student successfully developed a modified top-of-the-barrier model for graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) using NI AWR Design Environment™/Microwave Office® circuit design software.

We have an exciting agenda of activities that provide insight into the powerful, innovative tools and technologies of our newly released V11 NI AWR Design Environment™, which includes Microwave Office®, Analog Office®, Visual System Simulator™ (VSS), AXIEM®, and Analyst™ for the design of MMICs, RF PCBs, microwave modules, RFICs, communication systems, radar systems, antennas, and more.

AWR Corp. announces that the popular AWR Design Forum kicks off its fourth annual tour on July 11, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. Additional locations in the Asia Pacific region, including China and Taiwan are set for September.

AWR Corp. has extended its 2013 ADF tour well into 2014. The final venue stops being added to this tour are located in Israel. Late addition dates and locations include May 20th in Haifa and May 21st in Tel-Aviv.

Tokyo Keiki uses AWR software to design and manufacture high-power amplifiers for its advanced solid state radar systems. Despite the fact that PA radar design is extremely complex and time-intensive, the company was able to take advantage of the seamless collaborative design offered in Microwave Office® circuit design software and AXIEM® EM simulation software to greatly reduce its design time, effectively in half.

Cover Sistemi, an Italian electronics developer, used AWR software to design an ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver from concept to final production in a single pass. Specifications were for a complete design starting from the antenna through to the entire RF/baseband analog chain down to the AD converter.

AWR will be presenting and demonstrating its soon-to-be released V11 NI AWR Design Environment™ at EDI CON 2014 in Beijing, China starting April 8 and running through April 10, 2014. V11, the first major software release in 2014, includes new features, functionality and enhancements to Microwave Office®/Analog Office® circuit design software, Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) system design software, AXIEM® 3D planar electromagnetic (EM) software, and Analyst™ 3D finite element method (FEM) EM software. Demonstrations within booth #301 will showcase V11 new features and functionality and in particular the new user-customizable PCell capability and antenna measurements within Analyst.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announces the winners of its 2013 National Taiwan University Student Design Competition. AWR partnered with National Taiwan University in mid-2013 to sponsor the first ever Taiwan Student Design Competition. The objective of the competition was to encourage students in Taiwan to become involved in the dynamic profession of microwave and RF engineering and to apply their knowledge to practical designs using the highly efficient AWR design methodology.

AWR Corp. has released a digital edition of its AWR Magazine that’s a culmination of news and events over the past year. Widely distributed at major trade shows and AWR-hosted seminars, the AWR magazine is now offered online in a new interactive format that’s PC, tablet and smartphone compatible.

AWR Corp. announces a new university portal added onto its main navigation menu that provides focused, in depth content to the company’s rapidly-growing academic user base. The site is clearly and concisely organized with dedicated areas for students, faculty, and graduates to easily navigate and get the information they need.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, will preview new features and enhancements in its pending V11 release of the AWR Design Environment™ during DesignCon 2014, January 20-21 in Santa Clara, CA.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, will preview in Booth #1 new features and enhancements in its soon-to-be-released AWR Design Environment™ V11 at Radio Wireless Week 2014 (RWW 2014) in Newport Beach, CA from January 20 to 21. Of special interest are demos of the new configurable PCells (library of parts) antenna measurement capabilities in AWR’s Analyst™ 3D finite element method (FEM) EM simulation software.

AWR Corp. announces the winners of its 2013 Xidian University student design competition, held this autumn in Xi’an, China as part of the company’s global Student Design Competition Program. The Xidian competition was announced in June of this year and resulted in dozens of high quality designs being submitted. The winners were announced during an awards ceremony this November.

AWR Corp. in partnership with parent company National Instruments teamed with Texas Tech University to supply Microwave Office® RF/microwave software for use in a cancer research project that resulted in the invention of the revolutionary Smart Radar for non-invasively tracking tumors during radiation therapy.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA Software, will be exhibiting in Booth A505 at the 2013 Microwave Workshops and Exhibition (MWE 2013) from November 27 to 29 in Yokohama, Japan. Software demonstrations of the AWR Design Environment™ will inform and educate attendees about key features and applications.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA Software, is co-hosting with CST and National Instruments a complimentary series on high-frequency design, simulation, and test workshops in Brazil and Argentina this month.

A new AWR Customer Success Story details how North Carolina State University (NCSU) students enrolled in an advanced RF/microwave research and design course used AWR’s Microwave Office® and AXIEM® software to successfully complete their senior design project for a low-noise GPS amplifier and an X-Band power amplifier targeting the 8-10GHz frequency span.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announces that it will sponsor the Best Paper Award at the upcoming as well as future Automated RF & Microwave Measurement Society (ARMMS) Conferences in memory of the late AWR European business development manager Steve Evans-Pughe. The ARMMS Best Paper Award titled as “Steve Evans-Pughe Award” will honor the memory of this UK and pan-European RF and microwave industry pioneer.

AWR Corp. has launched a fully redesigned AWR.TV portal directly from within its main website framework to enhance the viewing experience of AWR’s hundreds of demos and tutorial videos. The new AWR.TV platform now supports multiple platforms for ready viewing on mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Android handsets/tablets. Recently added additions to the AWR.TV platform include AWR’s nine MicroApps presentations from IMS 2013.

AWR has finalized the agendas and opened registration for the 11 remaining venues of its ADF European tour. ADF is a free and open event where designers of microwave and RF circuits and systems such as monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), RF printed circuit boards (RF PCBs), and LTE communication systems can network, share useful information and resources pertinent to high-frequency design, and collaborate on industry issues and trends.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, exhibits at COMCAS 2013 and IME 2013 in Israel and China the week of October 21, 2013. At each show, the latest release of Microwave Office®, Visual System Simulator™(VSS), Analyst™, AXIEM®, and Analog Office® for the design of MMICs, RF PCBs, RFICs, microwave modules, communication systems, radar systems, antennas and more will be showcased.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announces that a full slate of activities will be offering during EuMW 2013. Select software demonstrations to MicroApps to an EU User Group Meeting as well as a PA design lunch and learn with Cree and a Customer Appreciation happy hour with National Instruments are all in the works.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announces that for a limited time the company will offer a free eBook download of Chapter 18, “Wideband Amplifiers,” from the new second edition of engineering professor Michael Steer’s textbook, Microwave & RF Design: A Systems Approach. The eBook excerpt download also contains embedded video tutorials of Professor Steer demonstrating key principles of design as they pertain to the wideband amplifier case study contained within its pages.

AWR Corp. gifted its software to the winners of the High Efficiency Power Amplifier (HEPA) and Software Defined Radio (SDR) Student Design Contests offered at the IMS 2013. The gifts are part of the AWR University Program, which encourages students to become involved in the dynamic profession of microwave and RF engineering and to apply their knowledge to practical designs using the highly efficient AWR design methodology.

AWR Corp. announces that its customer, Marki Microwave has leveraged its high-frequency design software platform to develop a new design and manufacturing flow for successful mixer design. The revolutionary new mixer design flow combines AWR’s Microwave Office® circuit design software and Marki’s patent-pending Microlithic™ mixer manufacturing process, resulting in a 14x reduction in the size of Marki’s mixers and a 5x reduction in design time with the same industry-leading quality and performance as the former handcrafted devices.

AWR announces the dates and venues for its AWR Design Forum 2013 (ADF2013) events in China and Taiwan that take place in early September. The AWR Design Forum is an open event at which designers of microwave and RF circuits and systems can network, share useful information, and collaborate on industry issues and trends.

A new application note from AWR highlights the use of AWR’s Microwave Office® circuit design software to develop a Q- to E-Band doubler and a K- to E-Band quadrupler circuit (including a medium E-Band power amplifier) for millimeter-wave wireless systems. The design effort resulted in an increase in gain as well as output power, two critical criteria for E-Band systems.

Pulse Electronics, a provider of cutting edge electronic components for the wireless and wired communications, power management, military/aerospace, and automotive industries, has developed a unique process that uses AWR’s Microwave Office® circuit design software for the design and optimization of its maximum efficiency LTE small cell base stations.

Nanjing Ericsson Panda Communications (NEPCC), the largest manufacturer of mobile communication base stations and system equipment in Asia, developed a novel quadrature coupled-line hybrid device with the aide of AWR software.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announces a new eBook, RF Electronics: Design and Simulation,which is available free of charge to students, graduates, professors and industry professionals through AWR’s new Professors in Partnership™ web portal.

AWR, the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, has finalized the agendas and opened registration for the summer AWR Design Forums (ADF) 2013 being held in Seoul, Korea on Monday, July 8th and Tokyo, Japan on Friday, July 12th.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, is a gold sponsor and will offer a full agenda of activities at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2013 that inform and educate attendees about new ways to use RF/microwave software for circuit and system design. IMS 2013 takes place from June 4 to 7 in Seattle, Washington.

AWR has posted a university success story detailing how Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) evaluated AWR’s Microwave Office RF and microwave design software as well as its AXIEM EM simulator for university research and education programs.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announced the start of its AWR Design Forum 2013 tour with a diverse schedule of dates and venues in the Asia Pacific region starting this summer. ADF is an open event at which designers of microwave and RF circuits and systems such as MMIC, RF PCB, and LTE can network and share useful information and resources pertinent to high-frequency design, discuss AWR products and technologies, and collaborate on industry issues and trends. Details are available at http://www.awrcorp.com/ADF2013.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announces that it will continue to offer its popular Graduate Gift Initiative to graduating engineering students worldwide for a record fourth consecutive year.

AWR Corp. announces the addition of two new stories to its roster of university student and professor design successes using AWR software. These new stories include contributions from Okinawa National College of Technology in Japan and Macquarie University in Australia.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announced the sponsorship of two major student design competitions in China as part of the company’s continuing focus on working with universities worldwide to empower students with RF/microwave software tool experience and jumpstart their engineering careers.

What: AWR is a gold sponsor at the Electronic Design Innovations Conference (EDI CON) 2013, which runs from March 12 -14 in Beijing, China. Together with parent company National Instruments, AWR will be showcasing at Booth #255 joint hardware/software solutions, as well as the first update in 2013 of the AWR Design Environment™, inclusive of Microwave Office®/Analog Office® circuit design software, VSS™ system design software, as well as AXIEM® 3D planar EM software and Analyst™ 3D FEM EM software.

AWR has just published a new Microwave Office® software application note titled, “End-to-end Design and Realization of an X-band Transmission Analyzer Using AWR Circuit, System, and EM Software.” The note examines the complete flow and details the design of several critical design elements for this device, which integrates many RF components on a single printed circuit board (PCB). Read More

A new white paper from AWR, “Understanding and Correctly Predicting Critical Metrics for Wireless RF Links,” highlights the advantages of using Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) RF system simulation software for detailed insight into the full performance of an RF link in next-generation wireless products.

AWR Corp. has announced AWR Design Environment V10.04, its first new software release in 2013, which includes many new features and enhancements to Microwave Office/Analog Office and Visual System Simulator, as well as AXIEM and Analyst.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, will showcase in Booth #7 at IEEE Radio Wireless Week 2013 the latest version of its AWR Design Environment™ with many new features and enhancements specifically developed for high-frequency wireless design.

What: Sherry Hess, VP of Marketing at AWR, has posted a new blog discussing the value of online videos as an innovative educational resource for providing remote learning. The blog, “Kahn Academy—I’m a Fan!” lauds the Kahn Academy website, which provides over 3,500 online videos on all facets of education. It compares this education model to AWR’s own AWR.TV online video channel, which is a valuable resource for customers, university students, and anyone interested in AWR’s RF/microwave design software.

What: AWR is offering an array of software demonstrations, lectures, and partner presentations at the Microwave Workshops and Exhibition 2012 (MWE2012) in Yokohama, Japan from November 28 through November 30.

AWR Corp. and Optenni Ltd. announced AWR Connected for Optenni Lab, an integrated workflow that accelerates wireless antenna design by enabling optimized matching circuits to be transferred from Optenni Lab matching circuit software to AWR’s Microwave Office high-frequency design software with a single mouse click. The interface constructs the matching circuit in Microwave Office, sets up and runs the simulation, and then allows for further refinement and analysis within Microwave Office and AXIEM®, AWR’s 3D planar electromagnetic simulator.

GreenPeak was challenged with designing a GP510 system-on-chip RF4CE communication controller for integration into set-top boxes and GP561 for the remote controller devices. The chips needed to be optimized for low cost while at the same time providing superior performance.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announced its slate of product and technology activities scheduled during the European Microwave Week (EuMW) in Amsterdam. EuMW is Europe’s premier microwave, RF, wireless and radar event and runs from October 28 through November 2, 2012. Highlights of activities include:

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, is proud to sponsor for the second year in a row the MicroApps Program at European Microwave Week 2012, being held in Amsterdam October 28th through November 2nd.

AWR Corp. is taking its very successful AWR Design Forum to numerous cities throughout Europe starting on the 11th of September in the United Kingdom (UK) and concluding on the 29th of November in France. A complete listing of ADF locations and agenda details, as well as registration information, is available online at www.awrdesignforum.com.

AWR Corp. has finalized the agendas and opened registration for the 2012 AWR Design Forum (ADF) (www.awrdesignforum.com) China venues of Xi’an and Chengdu. More information can be found at the links below.

AWR Corp., the leader in high-frequency EDA, has added nine videos of its MicroApps presentations from the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2012 to its AWR.TV portal. Tune into the IMS channel to view the following AWR MicroApps presentations:

AWR Corp. announced that agendas for the AWR Design Forums (ADF) 2012 (www.awrdesignforum.com) for Japan, Korea and Taiwan have been finalized and posted online, and registration will be open through the day preceding each event.

AWR Corp. once again takes a leadership position at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2012 with a full slate of AWR 2011 software demonstrations, MicroApps presentations and panel, and its renowned Customer Appreciation Party.

AWR Corp. announces the AWR Design Forum (ADF) 2012 for Japan and Korea. The Japan event is scheduled for Friday, July 6, 2012 and the Korea event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 10, 2012. The call for papers for both events is now open. Visit www.awrdesignforum.com to learn more and to submit a presentation.

ZTE Corp., a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, and AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA, announced that ZTE has selected AWR as one of its partners for RF EDA software.

TDK company EPCOS, a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules and systems, and Pulse Electronics, a leading antenna manufacturer, used AWR’s Microwave Office to design indie, a breakthrough technology that answers the challenge from carriers in the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance to develop a single, operator-independent RF platform supporting all NGMN operator frequency bands.

AWR Corp. has been issued a U.S. Patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a “block-specific harmonic balance analysis system.” Originally filed on December 3, 2008, US Patent No. 8,131,521 addresses circuit simulation using multi-rate harmonic balancing. Specifically, the invention -- known as MRHB™ and first available within AWR’s 2009 product release -- speeds the design of complex circuits by enabling the effective reduction of analysis dimensions (e.g., frequency or time).

AWR Corp. and Magus (Pty) Ltd. , developers of the Antenna Magus expert system for antenna synthesis, announced a joint marketing relationship focused on accelerating the pace of antenna design for wireless-enabled products. The first result of this relationship is AWR Connected™ for Antenna Magus, an interface between the... Read More

AXIEM™, a 3D planar electromagnetic (EM) simulator from AWR Corp., was first announced in 2007 with innovative technology to solve large, complicated problems with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Released as an integral part of AWR's design environment, AXIEM provided designers with the ability to simulate large problems (more than... Read More

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This white paper discusses the design of power amplifiers employing Cree GaN HEMTs and NI AWR Design Environment / Microwave Office circuit design software to maximize power-added efficiency (PAE) by optimizing source and load pull at both fundamental and harmonic frequencies. The load-pull scripts within Microwave OfficeÃ?Â are used to find the optimum trade-offs in power gain, efficiency, and stability. The article describes the basis of Class F PA and inverse Class F design F, as well as a new approach called continuous Class F, which enables greater bandwidths to be realized. Several practical design examples are given, including the inspection of voltage and current waveforms for both packaged and bare die transistors in the 10 to 25 watt power range for frequencies up to 2.5 GHz. In addition, the ways in which the Microwave Office load pull wizard can be used to investigate fundamental and harmonic impedances both at the input and output of transistors are discussed.

What: AWR Corporation, in collaboration with its customer Jose Luis Flores, has added two new application notes to its technical papers library. These application notes introduce a technique known as auxiliary generator (AG) for nonlinear circuit analysis. AG is useful for broadening the set of solutions that can be reproduced from a harmonic-balance analysis and can help study their stability properties in order to optimize a nonlinear circuit for a desired response. The first application note analyses a very simple LC resonator in time and frequency domains and illustrates how oscillatory solutions can be found and reproduced from a nonlinear circuit with the aid of AG. The second application note expands on the topic by explaining how to apply AG to a more complex nonlinear circuit simulation of a forced Van der Pol oscillator.

Where: The Nonlinear Circuit Analysis in Time and Frequency Domain application notes are available for download.
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What: AWR Corporation, in collaboration with its customer Jose Luis Flores, has added two new application notes to its technical papers library. These application notes introduce a technique known as auxiliary generator (AG) for nonlinear circuit analysis. AG is useful for broadening the set of solutions that can be reproduced from a harmonic-balance analysis and can help study their stability properties in order to optimize a nonlinear circuit for a desired response. The first application note analyses a very simple LC resonator in time and frequency domains and illustrates how oscillatory solutions can be found and reproduced from a nonlinear circuit with the aid of AG. The second application note expands on the topic by explaining how to apply AG to a more complex nonlinear circuit simulation of a forced Van der Pol oscillator.

Where: The Nonlinear Circuit Analysis in Time and Frequency Domain application notes are available for download.
When: Immediately

The use of printed microstrip couplers in power amplifiers operating at microwave frequencies above 1 GHz has been well established and numerous papers have been written about the design of such structures. It is surprising, however, that little has been written about the subject of printed baluns (BALanced to UNbalanced) - electrical devices that convert between a balanced signal and an unbalanced signal. Even more surprising is that the dominant approach to power combining at VHF and UHF is via coaxial cables, which comes with inherent assembly, cost, and thermal issues.

Traditional modeling methods such as rules of thumb and spreadsheet calculations (Friis equations) give limited insight on the full performance of an RF link in next-generation wireless products. This white paper highlights the advantages of using specialized RF system simulation software to accurately predict critical metrics for wireless RF links.

Optimizing a PA design for one parameter invariably requires sacrifi cing the
performance of another. This delicate balance between performance and
effi ciency is not the only conundrum, because designers of 4G PAs must also
contend with demands for greater instantaneous bandwidth. As a result,
designers of next-generation PAs are relying on simulation more than ever
before, and their tasks include frequency domain simulation, time domain
simulation, and now circuit envelope simulation.

This white paper examines the different nonlinear models and measurement systems available today and how they can be used with Microwave Office®, a leading high-frequency design environment from AWR Corporation.

When simulating a complete subsystem such as a wireless communication device or radar receiver, the quality of measurement data becomes essential to ensure that the finished product meets or exceeds the demands the system will encounter in service.

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